BR teen confessed

Detective says bullet casings matched

A Baton Rouge teenager accused in the April 2010 slaying of two men confessed to trying twice to gun down one of them less than five weeks before the man was shot to death, a sheriff’s detective testified Thursday.

East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s Capt. Todd Morris also said bullet casings found at the scene of the first attempt on Charles Matthews’ life matched casings found at the murder scene.

Ryan “Sneaks” Carroll, 17, and four others are being held without bail on two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Matthews, 37, and Darryl “Bleek” Milton, 25, on Monte Sano Avenue on April 1, 2010.